… Fluffy Rice, Beans & Peas
It’s Tuesday night and I’m off to see Danny Bhoy tonight. Now, all I know about Danny Bhoy is that he is a comedian and he’s Scottish. The reason I know about Danny Bhoy is that a few weeks before the Edinburgh Festival he was doing a short run of shows in Edinburgh (a warm up show for his Edinburgh run?), and my dad went to see him. The reason my dad went to see him was because he (Bhoy) has only one prop for his show. A bar stool. The theatre he was in did not have a bar stool in their collection of props. Someone was dispatched to the nearest pub to borrow a bar stool. It just so happened that the pub was my dad’s local. Actually it is not that local. It’s a twenty minute bus ride from his house. But the point is that it is the pub my dad frequents. As a thank you to the pub for lending the bar stool for a few nights they are given a couple of tickets. Which in turn my dad is given. (I suspect as a thank you for being one of their best customers). Anyway all that to is say: my dad enjoyed Danny Bhoy, and that’s why I got tickets for me and some friends to see him.
Ok I know this is a food blog, so here goes …
Before going to the show I cooked this for my friends Ed (my American road trip buddy), Andrew and Gavin.
This was a great meal. I had the feeling it would be quite a bit of intense cooking at the start. Then a break. Then a bit of quick finishing off.
I wasn’t entirely right. It was relatively solid cooking. Making the fat fingers for the Kofta (or more accurately shaping them) took a bit of time. There are a lot of ingredients tonight. Lots of good stuff. Lots of flavour.
I did it in just over fifteen minutes. And even then I forgot to take the poppadoms out the microwave. They were cooked. But they weren’t on the table.
I like this meal. It’s among my favourites. I also liked that I did it, for my friends before we went out to do something pre-planned. Planned long before I ever thought about doing this project. Tonight was exactly what this project was about. The project was about cooking good, quick food, for other people, eating with other people, before I got on with whatever it is I was doing on a Tuesday night.
It’s Tuesday. I cooked. For others. I eat with others. I then did what I do on a Tuesday. Not that I see a show every Tuesday. But that’s what I had planned to do this Tuesday.
By the way my friend Hannah cooked this for her husband Tom the other night. He told me it was his favourite fifteen minute meal to date. So I thought I’d try it. It was great. It was one of my favoruites too. (Should I be offended that of all the fifteen minute meals he has had cooked for him, the one I have not cooked for him, is his favourite?)
I would recommend that if you are ever in Edinburgh, and you like real ale, and you like acoustic music, that you go to my dad’s pub*. I would recommend that if you ever get the chance that you go to see Danny Bhoy. And I would recommend that you cook this meal.
How long: Fifteen minutes and two seconds.
Who with: Ed, Andrew and Gavin
* In order to add this link to this website, I looked up my dad’s pub on google for the first time. Guess what? He is on one of the photo’s on the home page!
